Sacred Strategies

Author : Isa Aron,Steven M. Cohen,Lawrence A. Hoffman,Ari Y. Kelman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566996235

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Sacred Strategies by Isa Aron,Steven M. Cohen,Lawrence A. Hoffman,Ari Y. Kelman Pdf

Sacred Strategies is about eight synagogues that reached out and helped people connect to Jewish life in a new way—congregations that had gone from commonplace to extraordinary. Over a period of two years, researchers Aron, Cohen, Hoffman, and Kelman interviewed 175 synagogue leaders and a selection of congregants (ranging from intensely committed to largely inactive). They found these congregations shared six traits: sacred purpose, holistic ethos, participatory culture, meaningful engagement, innovation disposition, and reflective leadership and governance. They write for synagogue leaders eager to transform their congregations, federations and foundations interested in encouraging and supporting this transformation, and researchers in congregational studies who will want to explore further. Part 1 of this book demonstrates how these characteristics are exemplified in the four central aspects of synagogue life: worship, learning, community building, and social justice. Part 2 explores questions such as: What enabled some congregations to become visionary? What hindered others from doing so? What advice might we give to congregational, federation, and foundation leaders? The picture that emerges in this book is one of congregations that were entrepreneurial, experimental, and committed to 'something better.'

Author : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
Publisher : Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015022281664

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Saint, Site, and Sacred Strategy by Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Pdf

Author : Will Coster,Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521824877

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Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe by Will Coster,Andrew Spicer Pdf

In this 2005 book, leading historians examine sanctity and sacred space in Europe during and after the religious upheavals of the early modern period.

Author : Robert Wild,Christopher McLeod
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 9782831710396

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Sacred Natural Sites by Robert Wild,Christopher McLeod Pdf

Author : Eleni Mouratidou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781119779476

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Re-presentation Policies of the Fashion Industry by Eleni Mouratidou Pdf

The book studies the way the luxurious fashion develops re-presentational politics by reinvesting symbolic fields such as art and culture, religion and the sacred as well as politics, in other words fields that represent a certain common pattern of life and a common interest. I develop a semiotic approach of the way art exhibitions, print and audiovisual advertising, publishing and distribution politics as well as special ready to wear collaborations with arts such as Jeff Koons reveal the fashion industry's gesture of pretending being a non-commercial structure especially in order to cover up its industrialisation and banalization process

Author : Joanne E. Cooper,Dannelle D. Stevens
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791453014

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Tenure in the Sacred Grove by Joanne E. Cooper,Dannelle D. Stevens Pdf

A treasure trove of information for women and minorities in the academy who are beginning their quest for tenure.

Author : Mukesh Kumar,G.S. Paliwal
Publisher : I K International Pvt Ltd
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789380578880

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Biodiversity: An Overview by Mukesh Kumar,G.S. Paliwal Pdf

India’s phytodiversity is one of the most significant in the world. India is one of the twelve mega-biodiversity centers in the world and also an important center of origin of agrobiodiversity. It is therefore, very important to study, document and conserve the plant wealth of India and also of the world before its possible extinction. There are convincing scientific, economic and sociological reasons for giving priority to the conservation of the major centers of plant diversity throughout the world. The strategies to conserve the biodiversity include establishment of protected area network and corridors with emphasis on appropriate levels of management, reduction of anthropogenic pressure on natural populations by cultivating them elsewhere, programmes of augmentation, reintroduction and introduction of target taxa, restoration of degraded habitats, etc. The conservation strategies can be either, in-situ conservation of genetic resources within their ecosystem and natural habitat or ex-situ conservation of components of genetic material of biological diversity outside their natural habitat. The choice of conservation strategy depends upon the nature of the material to be conserved, i.e., the life cycle and mode of reproduction, size of individual population and ecological status. Ex-situ techniques include the establishment of botanical and zoological gardens, banks of pollen, seed tissue culture, DNA, etc. Establishment of forest reserves, national parks, protected areas and on farm conservation of valuable plant varieties is being promoted to facilitate their in-situ conservation.

Author : GamerGuides.com
Publisher : Gamer Guides
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781631025563

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Final Fantasy VIII - Strategy Guide by GamerGuides.com Pdf

Follow the exploits of Squall, a resident of Balamb Garden and SeeD aspirant whose first contract as a professional mercenary expands into a fight to save the world from an evil sorceress. This guide will cover the main quest-line chronologically, giving advice on leveling (and how to avoid it), where to find the best spells, how to acquire all GFs and defeat all bosses. In addition the guide will cover all side quests and will also include in-depth mini-guides for Chocobo World and Triple Triad. By following this guide you can aspire to the following: - Complete walkthrough of the main questline. - All side quests and optional content. - How to defeat both of the game’s superbosses. - Information on how to acquire each GF and a discussion of their abilities, including where to assign them. - Information on Triple Triad, including the location of every card in the game and how to best use them. - Low-level run information. - Information on min-maxing stats. - A mini-guide for Chocobo World. - Information on all characters, including stats and how to acquire all their weapons and limits. - Triple Triad guide.

Author : Donna L. Gillette,Mavis Greer,Michele Helene Hayward,William Breen Murray
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461484066

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Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes by Donna L. Gillette,Mavis Greer,Michele Helene Hayward,William Breen Murray Pdf

Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and visual representations like rock art. Researchers work to understand religious thoughts and actions that prompted their creation distinct from those created for economic, political, or social purposes. Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation. Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements. Studies from a number of different cultural areas and time periods explore how rock art engages the emotions, materializes thoughts and actions and reflects religious organization as it intersects with sociopolitical cultural systems.

Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195353808

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The Idea of Human Rights by Michael J. Perry Pdf

Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle the complex idea of human rights by way of four probing and interrelated essays. * The initial essay, which is animated by Perry's skepticism about the capacity of any secular morality to offer a coherent account of the idea of human rights, suggests that the first part of the idea of human rights--the premise that every human being is "sacred" or "inviolable"--is inescapably religious. * Responding to recent criticism of "rights talk", Perry explicates, in his second essay, the meaning and value of talk about human rights. * In his third essay, Perry asks a fundamental question about human rights: Are they universal? In addressing this question, he disaggregates and criticizes several different varieties of "moral relativism" and then considers the implications of these different relativist positions for claims about human rights. * Perry turns to another fundamental question about human rights in his final essay: Are they absolute? He concludes that even if no human rights, understood as moral rights, are absolute or unconditional, some human rights, understood as international legal rights, are--and indeed, should be--absolute. In the introduction, Perry writes: "Of all the influential--indeed, formative--moral ideas to take center stage in the twentieth century, like democracy and socialism, the idea of human rights (which, again, in one form or another, is an old idea) is, for many, the most difficult. It is the most difficult in the sense that it is, for many, the hardest of the great moral ideas to integrate, the hardest to square, with the reigning intellectual assumptions of the age, especially what Bernard Williams has called 'Nietzsche's thought': 'There is not only no God, but no metaphysical order of any kind....' For those who accept 'Nietzsche's thought', can the idea of human rights possibly be more than a kind of aesthetic preference? In a culture in which it was widely believed that there is no God or metaphysical order of any kind, on what basis, if any, could the idea of human rights long survive?" The Idea of Human Rights: Four Inquiries will appeal to students of many disciplines, including (but not limited to) law, philosophy, religion, and politics.

Author : Joseph P. Forgas,Klaus Fiedler,William D. Crano
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317508984

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Social Psychology and Politics by Joseph P. Forgas,Klaus Fiedler,William D. Crano Pdf

Social psychology and politics are intricately related, and understanding how humans manage power and govern themselves is one of the key issues in psychology. This volume surveys the latest theoretical and empirical work on the social psychology of politics, featuring cutting-edge research from a stellar group of international researchers. It is organized into four main sections that deal with political attitudes and values; political communication and perceptions; social cognitive processes in political decisions; and the politics of intergroup behavior and social identity. The contributions address such exciting questions as how do political attitudes and values develop and change? What role do emotions and moral values play in political behavior? How do political messages and the media influence political perceptions? What are the psychological requirements of effective democratic decision making, and why do democracies sometimes fail? How can intergroup harmony be developed, and what is the role of social identity in political processes? As such, this volume integrates the role of cognitive, affective, social and cultural influences on political perception and behavior, offering an overview of the psychological mechanisms underlying political processes. It provides essential reading for teachers, students, researchers and practitioners in areas related to power, social influence and political behavior.

Author : Rena Laisram
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527501072

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Sacred Groves, Cultural Ecosystems and Conservation by Rena Laisram Pdf

Sacred Groves, Cultural Ecosystems and Conservation addresses the increasing contemporary relevance of ecosystems being depleted at an alarming rate worldwide. The purpose of this collection of essays is to bring together different perspectives on sacred groves in the context of the cultural and spiritual dimensions of biodiversity conservation. In offering an experience of sacred natural sites in varied cultural contexts of Africa and Asia, it raises a common concern for natural resource management. Based on the long-term research of the contributing authors, the nine chapters reflect a continuous process of redefining sacred spaces within an interdisciplinary framework grounded on existing literature and ethnographic field research. The highlight of the discourse is the complex interactions and negotiations between the ‘sacred’ and the ‘secular’; which brings center-stage the subject of sacred status that communities have given to nature. This book will be of interest to researchers and general audience alike interested and concerned with earth ecosystems and the spiritual world, creating a space for critical enquiry and future hopes in the face of threatening habitat loss.

Author : M. Morgan,P. Baert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137521309

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Conflict in the Academy by M. Morgan,P. Baert Pdf

Examining an intramural conflict that erupted within the English Faculty at Cambridge University in the early 1980s, this book develops a theoretical analysis of disputes as they unfold within the academy and explores the broader historical shifts within Higher Education and how these related to developments in Continental Europe.

Author : A. Martin Byers
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666901283

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The Real Mound Builders of North America by A. Martin Byers Pdf

The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted unchanged in terms of their essential structures and traditions, varying only in ceremonial practices that manifested these structures.

Author : Casey Reason,Clair Reason
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412994040

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Mirror Images by Casey Reason,Clair Reason Pdf

Mirror Images presents ten iconic teacher-leadership models that help teachers move away from teaching as they were taught toward new roles that can transform the profession.